Author: LOVELL, MARY S.
Title: A Rage to Live. A Biography of Richard and Isabel Burton.
Description: London: Little, Brown and Company, 1998. 0316643858. 1st edition. "Frequently descibed within his own lifetime as 'the most interesting figure of the nineteenth century', Sir Richard Burton has been the subject of numerous biographies. Remarkably, however, 'A Rage to Live' is the first book to detail fully his relationship with Isabel, his intelligent, striking and unconventional wife..Drawing on stunning new evidence - Isabel Burton's own papers which were believed to have been burned after her death, as well as many other previously unpublished sources - Mary S.Lovell reassesses two lives packed with romance, incident and adventure.." Pp.xviii/910, 55 black & white photos and illustrations + a mapof Burton's East African Journeys (1857-9), maps to endpapers. Black cloth, dustwrapper has a removable clear protective wrap. VG/VG.

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